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The Great Big BOO, Gilroy Gardens’ family Halloween event, returns Sept. 25 – Nov. 1, 2026, turning the theme park into an after-dark world of trick-or-treating, live musical shows, night-lit rides, and light displays. Attractions and entertainment The Great Big BOO, a family Halloween event Gilroy Gardens runs each fall in the South Bay, leans […]
Home invasion horror, like The Heretiks, has always been one of those subgenres that’s more versatile than it looks. Even setting aside that you can always change who or what is invading and who’s being invaded, it’s a form built on creative problem-solving right out there in the open, making the home at the center of […]
Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train, a long-running family Halloween event in the North Carolina mountains, returns Friday, September 25, and runs Friday and Saturday nights through October 31. The nighttime event at the Blowing Rock theme park pairs its signature Ghost Train ride with a haunted house, the Freaky Forest, trick-or-treating, a blacklight show, and after-dark […]
AMC Theatres is running a five-film horror series called Welcome to Horrorwood at about 300 U.S. locations this October, screening a classic on Friday and Tuesday nights with a twist: each showing is hosted by Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas, who introduces the film and then plays the band’s matching music video. AMC built […]
A24 has put out a cinema-only teaser, shown ahead of Resident Evil, for a horror film called Slayground, along with a countdown site, runlikehell.com, that ticks down about 30 days. The teaser is built as surveillance footage from inside a haunted attraction, the setting the film takes its name from, and A24 has not released […]
Erebus Haunted Attraction in Pontiac, Michigan, opened its 2026 season on September 18 with a new attraction, Primordium, that tells the origin of the time-travel mythology behind the haunt. Primordium is set in the first laboratory of Dr. Colber, the fictional scientist at the center of the Erebus story, where an organism recovered from the […]
Shocktober Fest, the Halloween attraction that started as a single haunted house on a West Sussex farm in 1996, turns 30 this year, and it is marking the anniversary with four new experiences. The Halloween event located at Tulleys Farm near Crawley runs 26 nights, from October 2 to November 1, with tickets starting at […]
Purina’s Beggin’ has three new limited-edition Halloween dog treats out now, all made with real bacon and shaped for the season: ghost-shaped Ghoulish Ghosts, pumpkin-shaped Pupkin Bites, and bat-shaped Bat Bites, a Target exclusive. Each comes in a 6-ounce pouch, priced around $3.49 to $3.69. The three treats All three are limited edition and available […]
The new supernatural horror movie Goody Goody just arrived on Shudder, delivering a tense home birth gone nightmarishly wrong, demon
It’s never too early to start planning what horror movies you’ll be watching in October as we head towards Halloween, and Netflix has released its lineup of new additions to the streaming platform that will be arriving in a few weeks. As always, the service will unveil both all-new originals alongside licensed titles, which features […]
Halloween Love is a huge inspiration to me, and I’ve always looked forward to the updates each year, and listening to their radio station. Noticed there are Creator posts and I wanted to share exactly how much Halloween has inspired me through the years, in the various art projects I’ve created. I want to share ...
Terror on the Coast, a 40,000-square-foot haunted attraction in Gulfport, opens its 2026 season September 18 and runs select nights through October 31. The Mississippi Gulf Coast haunt fills a warehouse with built movie sets and live actors, surrounds it with an outdoor midway of food trucks, vendors, and a full bar, and charges $25 […]
Regal Cinemas is putting a horror movie back on the big screen every night this October, from The Shining and The Thing to Halloween and Trick ‘r Treat, with tickets at $7.99. The series, called 31 Screams on Screen, runs one film a night from October 1 to 31, plus family-friendly matinees on weekends. Participating […]
A free, immersive Scream pop-up is coming to Manhattan this October, letting fans 21 and older step into the franchise for its 30th anniversary with cider tastings, photo moments, and an appearance from Ghost Face actor Skeet Ulrich. The experience, called Angry Orchard Video, is built by Angry Orchard and staged as a 1990s video […]
Ripcord's Halloween Film Festival is putting $200,000 in unrestricted cash in front of ten genre shorts, with $100,000 going to first place. Submissions close October 1.
Jellycat’s 2026 Halloween collection is live on the plushmaker’s U.S. store, 19 designs in all. This year’s lineup runs from a $28 Ghost Bob and a smiley jack-o’-lantern named Ooky up to a $70 wizard puppy called Rufferty, with a Broox Bat, a Growlston Gargoyle, and a $30 garlic bulb with a face in between. […]
The Haunted Attraction Association (HAA), the only official trade association for the haunted attraction industry, has certified a record 74 haunted attractions across the United States as 2026 Top Haunts, the largest class in the program’s history and up from 67 in 2025. Every certified Top Haunt on the list is an active HAA member […]
Halloween Horror Nights may take place inside Universal Studios Florida, but Universal Orlando has expanded the Halloween experience beyond the park gates, including at its hotels. Universal Orlando recently invited Inside Universal to spend a night at Loews Royal Pacific Resort and get a taste of what hotel guests can experience during Halloween Horror Nights, [...]
Over 1 million players have already explored Haddonfield in just the first week of release for Halloween: The Game, and the developers at Illfonic are now giving us a taste of what’s next. In a blog post over on the game’s official website this afternoon, Illfonic explains that their “efforts to continue improving Halloween: The […]
Mike Flanagan says he is writing his adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Mist' right now, with the Warner Bros. script due around Halloween. He is not remaking Frank Darabont's version.